AI skills continue to drive IT job postings, with 75% of US technology openings requiring AI fluency in June, up 178% year-over-year, according to the Dice July 2026 Jobs Report. Roles in the software industry continue to rise, ranking second behind consulting as the industry seeking the most IT help right now. Aerospace/defense, finance/banking, and…
Every AI rollout comes with the same internal pitch: We’ll move faster, and we’ll stay accurate, because humans will review the output. It’s a two-part promise. Most organizations have spent the last two years measuring the efficiency of this, but not many have seriously tested the second part. New research suggests we should be questioning…
There is no shortage of companies calling themselves AI-first right now, but far fewer are built to operate that way. The next phase of the AI-first era is about to produce its first real casualties: companies that confuse access to AI with a strategy for AI. Buying the tools was the easy part. Rewiring how…
Like all execs, CIOs must make tough choices. Brian Fruh, CIO at CTI Meeting Technology, has encountered many of them over the course of his career: Should he go all-in with innovation or favor a stable environment? Should his team favor speed over security in its work? What’s the right investment split between transformation, modernization,…
For the past two years, companies have been racing to build AI agents. Most of that work has been focused inward: Embedding agents inside existing enterprise applications, workflows and teams. Now a more consequential shift is already underway. AI agents are beginning to operate beyond the boundaries of the enterprise, interacting with external systems, coordinating…
Technology procurement has changed more in the last year than in the previous 20 due to a combination of political, economic, and technological factors. Countries and organizations are realizing that dependence on a handful of platforms is no longer sustainable. For enterprises, this was brought home with the on-off-on saga of Anthropic’s Fable 5. For…
Process Monitor is the built-in PeopleSoft tool administrators use to track the status of scheduled jobs. CIOs who only measure success or failure are missing where the real risk lives. For most CIOs and ERP leaders, ERP reliability conversations center on uptime, integrations and transaction throughput. Those are the visible risks. They show up on…
In August 2025, 126 malicious packages landed in the npm registry. Even after the community caught the initial wave, 80 of these hidden backdoors remained actively listed. That was enough. Over 86,000 downloads. Malicious code in PhantomRaven, packages running in the production systems of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. And throughout the entire window, not a single EDR/XDR…
For CIOs, learning from the startup ecosystem has never been more critical. As pressure mounts to transform business operations with AI and agentic systems, IT leaders should be looking to those on the AI vanguard for insights into the strategic and technical decisions necessary to launch, grow, and thrive in today’s AI-disrupted business environment. So…
Model Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging standard for connecting AI models to external tools and enterprise data, is undergoing its biggest architectural overhaul yet. The latest release candidate, scheduled for release on July 28, removes protocol-level sessions in favor of a stateless architecture, a change which industry experts say is intended to make MCP easier…